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You start off the marketing and sale of your home with a listing agreement. This document controls all the terms of the sale. It sets the keynote for a string of important decisions and legal agreements. In this article, we’ll…
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Extraterrestrial Real Estate: Is a Lunar Deed Legit?
If a company says it’s selling land on the moon, should we believe it? What about the planets? Is Martian land for sale? Is Venus available? Here’s the story so far.
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Buying a Floating Home? Here’s How to Plan Your Purchase.
Floating homes are hallmarks of many coastal and riverside cities. There are also amphibious houses — built on land, but capable of rising up off the ground when storm waters rush in. Flexible utility pipes move to meet the water…
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Solving the Affordability Problem
Can Deed Restrictions Include Rather Than Exclude? U.S. home prices have outpaced U.S. employees’ wages. This creates a number of problems in real estate. For one, it shuts a lot of people out of the market. Most of today’s renters…
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Navigating the Home Appraisal: A Buyer’s Guide
You’ve put in your bid for the home you want. Now you await the appraiser’s report. What’s going on behind the scenes? How the Appraisal Works in Most Cases The typical home appraisal relies mainly on local sales comparisons, or…
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Selling Your Home As-Is? Here’s What You Should Know
Is the hot seller’s market of Summer 2021 tempting you to put your home on the market and watch the offers roll in? To get ready quickly, you might wonder if you should put a clause in your contract to…
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How to Take Someone Off the Mortgage
What’s the plan when your spouse or co-borrower needs to come off the mortgage? Will you refinance, keep a modified version of the loan, or sell the home to pay the loan off? Here’s a quick Q&A to explore the…
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Own Without Remorse: Six Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Home
Hindsight is 20-20 vision. Homeowners learn something from each home they buy. Looking back, most homeowners can tell you what they did well — and a few things they could have done better. So, what can’t-miss items need your attention…
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Should You Get an Adjustable-Rate Mortgage? Here Are 6 Reasons You Might
When it’s time to meet with their mortgage experts and apply for loans, most home shoppers accept mortgages with fixed interest rates. When they do, the interest rates are locked in throughout the life of their loans. That’s a good…
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Friends, Relatives and Colleagues: How to Sell Your Home to Someone You Know
Most home sales are arm’s length transactions — deals between former strangers. But selling to a relative, colleague or friend can also make sense in certain circumstances. When friends or family members transfer homes to each other, they have a…
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Post-Pandemic Life: Is Home Selling Forever Changed?
In March 2020, Covid was dubbed a global pandemic. To slow the spread of the virus, U.S. states issued stay-at-home orders for people working in real estate—at first deemed a non-essential business. Appraisals for real estate contracts were non-essential in…
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Real Estate Markets in the Second Half of 2021: Bull and Bear Cases
Summer 2021 will be a hot one for the real estate market, says the Home Buying Institute. But is the raging home-buying bull market sustainable? With property values up well over 10% in many areas, some market watchers are asking…
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Deeds, Reimagined: Is a New Day Dawning for the Chain of Title?
Art met real estate in a new way this year. Krista Kim’s Mars House design appeared on the first irreplaceable, non-fungible token (NFT) for a virtual house and garden. Kim’s virtual experience was followed by an NFT listing for a…
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Do-It-Yourself Stimulus? The Rise of the Property Tax Protests
For years running, Texans have been protesting their property taxes. This year (2021), Texas homeowners had until May to object to their county assessors’ valuations of their homes. When they win their cases, their homes’ market prices don’t change. But…
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Fraud Update: Closing Scams Now Make Up Nearly Half of Cybercrime Losses
What’s a closing scam? Consider the Colorado home buyer who, a few weeks back, opened an email from the title company. It contained precise instructions for wiring the closing money. The amount requested — about $80,000 — matched the amount…